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andmake such other tests as are necessary to ensure that those controls

are functioning correctly.

Note: Civil AviationRegulation 244 (1)(a) requires that immediately before

taking-off on any flight, the pilot in commandof an aircraft shall test

the flight controls on the ground to the full limit of their travel and

make suchother tests as are necessary toensure that those controls

are functioning correctly.

SECURITYOFDOORSANDHATCHES (CAO 20.2)

Immediately before taxi-ing for thepurposeof takingoff on any flight, thepilot

in command shall ensure that all doors, escape hatches and loading hatches

are properly secured.

PRECAUTIONSBEFORESOLOFLIGHT INAIRCRAFTFITTEDWITHDUAL

CONTROLS (CAO20.2)

Thepilot in commandof an aircraft fittedwith dual controls, which is to

be flown solo, shall ensure that safety harness and any other articles or

equipmentwhichmay foul the controls are safely secured; if the second

control column is readily detachable, it shall be removed.

FUELSYSTEM INSPECTION (CAO 20.2)

Theoperator andpilot in command shall ensure that the following inspections

and tests for thepresenceofwater in the fuel systemof the aircraft aremade:

• either:

- if the aircraftmanufacturer’s data specifies themanner inwhich

inspections and tests for the presence ofwater in the aircraft’s

fuel system are to bemade and the data has been approved under

regulation 42M as part of the aircraft’s system ofmaintenance, an

inspection and test in accordancewith the approved data; or

- in any other case, before the start of each day’s flying, and after each

refuelling,with the aircraft standingon a reasonably level surface, drain

a small quantity of fuel from each fuel tank into a clear transparent

container and check by an approvedmethod for thepresence of

water; and

2 – saf e t y precaut i ons

pre-flight